amase

From amasa +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /aˈmase/
• Rhymes: -ase
• Hyphenation: a‧ma‧se

amase

1. in large numbers / a large amount, en masse, in droves, in bulk,

   Turistoj amase alvenis al la banloko.

   Tourists came to the spa in droves.

   Nimfeoj flosas amase sur la lageto.

   Masses of waterlilies float on the pond.

   • L. L. Zamenhof (translator), Hebrew Scriptures, II. Samuel 15.12,

     Tiam la konspiro plifortiĝis, kaj la popolo ĉiam pli kaj pli amase iris al Abŝalom.

     And so the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalom’s following kept on increasing (lit. the people in ever greater numbers went to Absalom) (New International Version).

2. in a heap, in a pile

   Je la fino de la kuro, li amase terenfalis.

   At the end of the race he fell in a heap on the ground.

   • Sergio Pokrovskij (translator), La Mastro kaj Margarita (The Master and Margarita) by Mikhail Bulgakov, Part 1, Chapter 6,

     La viŝtukoj, per kiuj antaŭe estis ligita Ivano, amase kuŝis sur tiu sama kanapo.

     The towels which had bound Ivan [...] lay in a heap on the same sofa. (Mirra Ginsburg translation, Grove, 1995)

amase

1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of amar
2. inflection of amasar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Borrowed from a Tale South Cushitic language; Compare Iraqw tseehha (“dry cow dung”). Ultimately from Proto-South Cushitic *saalo (“mud”).

amasé class 6

1. dung (of a large animal, like a cow or elephant)

• An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400‎^[1], 1998, page 325
• Schoenbrun, David (1993) “We Are What We Eat: Ancient Agriculture Between the Great Lakes”, in The Journal of African History, volume 4, number 1, pages 1–31

amase

1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of amar
2. inflection of amasar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative